Fake Components, Low Quality
Parts, and Defective Electronics Used by Government Contractors
in Building War Planes, Missile Defense Systems,
Military Equipment, and other Military Supplies Can
Cause Fatal Accidents and be the Basis for Military
Contractor
Procurement Fraud Qui Tam
Lawsuits and Defense Contractor
Procurement Fraud Whistleblower Lawsuits by Military Contractor
Fake Part Procurement Fraud Lawyer, False Certification
Procurement Fraud Whistleblower Reward Lawyer, and
Military Electronic Part Supply Chain Fraud Lawyer Jason Coomer

Military
contractor procurement fraud and Defense Contractor false certification
fraud in the electronic component supply chain have increased as some government contractors
and subcontractors are using cheaper electronic parts from
China, India, Mexico, and other countries to fulfill
government contracts. As a result these
military contractors use defective military
electronic components, defective military electronic
parts, and defective military equipment parts in war
planes, missile systems, and other military
equipment. Whistleblowers that have
independent knowledge of military electronic
component supply chain procurement fraud committed
against the government by government contractors and
subcontractors can blow the whistle on the
military procurement fraud and if they are the first to
provide notice of the fraud can recover a large
financial reward for helping the government identify
and stop procurement fraud.

Over a Million Fake
Components Have Been Used by Government Contractors
In United States War Planes Many of these Fake Part
Came from China

"The US Senate Armed Services
Committee said its researchers had uncovered 1,800
cases in which the Pentagon had been sold
electronics that may be counterfeit. In total,
the committee said it had found more than a million
fake parts had made their way into warplanes such as
the Boeing C-17 transport jet and the Lockheed
Martin C-130J 'Super Hercules'. It also found
fake components in Boeing's CH-46 Sea Knight
helicopter and the Theatre High-Altitude Area
Defence (THAAD) missile defence system. 'A million
parts is surely a huge number. But I want to repeat
this: we have only looked at a portion of the
defence supply chain. So those 1,800 cases are just
the tip of the iceberg,' said Senator Carl Levin. In
around seven in 10 cases, the fake parts originated
in China, while investigators traced another 20 per
cent of cases to the United Kingdom and Canada,
known resale points for Chinese counterfeits."
US weapons 'full of fake Chinese parts' Thousands of
United States' warplanes, ships and missiles contain
fake electronic components from China, leaving them
open to malfunction, according to a US Senate
committee.

False Certification of Product
Quality commonly occurs after a product has been
approved for mass production. The original
prototypes of a product are typically created with
high quality materials and parts including strong
metals, seals, plastics, and components. However,
after the original prototypes have been tested and
approved, some defense contractors use inferior
parts and materials to lower costs that make
weapons, ships, vehicles, computers, electronics,
and other military goods less reliable, weaker, and
more prone to not work when needed. The defense
contractor that provides a false certification of a
product's quality has committed a false
certification that may subject the defense
contractor to a Government Contractor Procurement
Fraud False Certification of Product Quality
Whistleblower Reward Lawsuit.

Coos Bay Company, Its Owner and
Six Employees Indicted for Fraud on Defense
Contracts

EUGENE, Ore. — A Coos Bay
business, its owner, and six employees were
arraigned in federal court today on an indictment
returned by a federal grand jury on December 14,
2011. The indictment alleges that Kustom Products,
Inc. (KPI), a vehicle parts supply business located
in Coos Bay, Oregon, its owner, and six employees
committed fraud on contracts with the United States
Department of Defense (DoD) valued at over $7.5
million. The indicted owner is Harold Ray
Bettencourt II. The indicted employees are
Bettencourt’s former wife (Kathy Sue Bettencourt),
three of his sons (Harold Ray Bettencourt III [Bo],
Nicholas Ryan Bettencourt and Peter Tracy
Bettencourt), his office manager (Margo Antonette
Densmore), and his purchasing agent (Joshua Lee
Kemp). The indictment alleges that KPI, Bettencourt,
and the others committed wire fraud, conspiracy to
commit wire fraud, fraud involving aircraft parts,
money laundering, and conspiracy to commit money
laundering. It also alleges that all proceeds
traceable to the fraud are to be forfeited including
$365,503.26 in funds from 20 bank accounts, eight
vehicles, one boat, two boat trailers, two jet skis,
and three all-terrain vehicles.

The indictment alleges that KPI
and a predecessor business, Southern Oregon Sterling
Parts and Service (SOS), provided nonconforming,
defective and counterfeit products to the DoD for
the purpose of increasing their profit margin. It
alleges that KPI and SOS committed fraud on at least
392 contracts resulting in payments of
$7,523,406.59. The indictment alleges that the
various nonconforming and counterfeit products where
provided to the DoD from KPI through DoD supply
centers in Columbus, Ohio; Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; and Richmond, Virginia. Some of the
products were critical application items, defined as
items essential to weapons systems performance or
operation, or the preservation of life or safety of
operational personnel. Examples were defective
aviation locknuts for the Kiowa helicopter. These
locknuts were used on the main rotor assembly of the
Kiowa helicopter and were flight critical because
the failure of the main rotary assembly could be
catastrophic, resulting in death or serious injury
to military personnel. Other critical application
items included clamp loops used in C-5 military
transport plane engines and other aircraft.

The indictment alleges that
Harold Bettencourt II facilitated the scheme by
directing other defendants to carry out actions on
behalf of KPI and its predecessor SOS, such as
making false representations in contracts, providing
non-conforming and counterfeit products, and
providing false documents to the DoD. The indictment
includes a number of examples of how the fraud was
committed, and explains how some products were
counterfeited in Mexico or obtained in China, even
though KPI represented them to be from DoD-approved
manufacturers in the United States. The DoD-approved
manufacturers whose parts were counterfeited or
otherwise misrepresented to be genuine include
Caterpillar, Inc., BAE Systems Land and Armaments,
Freightliner, Pacific Industrial Components, Inc.,
and SPS Technologies. The indictment also alleges
that KPI and its predecessor SOS counterfeited heat
treatment certifications of Timber Products
Inspection, Inc., on wood packaging materials in
order to decrease expenses and increase profits.

The indictment charges all
defendants with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit
wire fraud. The maximum statutory penalty for wire
fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud is a 20
year term of imprisonment and a $250,000.00 fine,
followed by a three year term of supervised release.
It also charges Harold Ray Bettencourt II, Nicholas
Ryan Bettencourt and Joshua Lee Kemp with fraud
involving aircraft parts. The maximum statutory
penalty for fraud involving aircraft parts is a 10
year prison term and $250,000.00 fine, followed by a
three year term of supervised release. The
indictment also charges Harold Ray Bettencourt II,
Kathy Sue Bettencourt, Bo Bettencourt, Nicholas Ryan
Bettencourt, Margo Antonette Densmore and KPI with
money laundering and conspiracy to commit money
laundering. The maximum statutory penalty for money
laundering is a 10 year prison term and $250,000.00
fine, followed by a three year term of supervised
release.

The matter is scheduled for trial
before United States District Judge Michael R. Hogan
on June 27, 2012. All defendants were released on
conditions pending trial.

Amanda Marshall, United States
Attorney for the District of Oregon, emphasized the
serious nature of the charges: “The allegation that
military personnel were placed in harm’s way for the
sole purpose of financial profit warrants vigorous
investigation and prosecution.”

A criminal indictment is only an
allegation and not evidence of guilt. All defendants
are presumed to be innocent unless and until proven
guilty.

The case is being investigated by
the Department of Defense/Office of Inspector
General/Defense Criminal Investigative Service, the
Army Criminal Investigative Division Major
Procurement Fraud Unit, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service Criminal
Investigation Division, the Social Security
Administration/Office of Inspector General, and
Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The case is
being prosecuted by Assistant U. S. Attorney Sean B.
Hoar.

Former America’s Most Wanted
Fugitive Sentenced in Virginia to 105 Years in
Prison for Leading International Conspiracy to
Defraud the Military

WASHINGTON – Roger Charles Day
Jr., a former America’s Most Wanted fugitive, was
sentenced today to 105 years in prison for his role
in leading an international conspiracy to defraud
the Department of Defense (DOD) of more than $11.2
million by supplying nonconforming and defective
parts for military aircraft, vehicles and weapons
systems.

The sentence was announced today
by U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride of the Eastern
District of Virginia; Assistant Attorney General
Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division; Special
Agent in Charge Robert E. Craig of the Defense
Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) Mid-Atlantic
Field Office; and Special Agent in Charge Edward T.
Bradley of the DCIS Northeast Field Office.

Day, 47, formerly of Long Valley,
N.J., was also ordered by U.S. District Judge John
Gibney to forfeit 3,496 ounces of gold bars and
coins, two sport utility vehicles and $2.1 million,
which together represents his proceeds from the
scheme. In addition, Judge Gibney ordered Day to pay
a $3 million punitive fine and $6.2 million in
restitution to the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA),
the DOD entity that Day defrauded.

On Aug. 25, 2011, Day was found
guilty on all counts, following a nine-day jury
trial. Day was charged in August 2008 with
conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud,
conspiracy to engage in international money
laundering and conspiracy to smuggle gold out of the
United States. Day was extradited from Mexico in
December 2010 following his arrest in Cancun,
Mexico, resulting from a story which aired on
America’s Most Wanted pertaining to Day.

“Mr. Day’s greed put the men and
women in the U.S. military in harm’s way,” said U.S.
Attorney MacBride. “He is a serial fraudster who
made millions by exploiting the military supply
chain during a time of armed conflict. Today’s
sentence ensures that he will never again put our
military in danger again.”

“Mr. Day orchestrated a complex,
multi-year fraud scheme that jeopardized the safety
of our nation’s military personnel,” said Assistant
Attorney General Breuer. “He operated this scheme
from outside the United States, in an attempt to
escape justice, and he deliberately provided
defective equipment to the Department of Defense.
Today’s lengthy prison sentence reflects the
seriousness of Mr. Day’s reckless crimes.”

“The sentencing of Roger Day to
105 years in prison culminates a highly successful
investigation and represents an unprecedented
sentence for a product substitution investigation by
the Defense Criminal Investigative Service with
audit support by the Defense Contract Audit Agency.
Through his many schemes to defraud the Department
of Defense, Day exploited the Department’s complex
acquisition process,” said DCIS Special Agents in
Charge Bradley and Craig in a joint statement. “It
is unpardonable that individuals endeavor to enrich
themselves by stealing from the U.S. taxpayer
through fraud, especially by denying critical goods
to our warfighters combating terrorism in a hostile
overseas environment. The Defense Criminal
Investigative Service remains resolute in our
commitment to aggressively investigate these crimes
and to support their prosecution to the fullest.”

According to the evidence at
trial and court documents, over a four-year period,
Day led a conspiracy to bid on and win contracts to
provide parts to the U.S. military for military
aircraft, vehicles and weapons systems through the
DLA, including through the DLA’s Defense Supply
Center in Richmond, Va. The parts included “critical
application items,” which are essential to weapons
system performance or to the preservation of the
lives and safety of operating personnel.

In the course of the scheme, Day
and other conspirators, operating in the United
States, Canada, Mexico and Belize, formed at least
18 separate companies that posed as legitimate
contractors and collectively used a computer program
to win nearly 1,000 lucrative contract awards for
the various companies. Day and his conspirators then
shipped defective parts to the DOD on more than 300
of those contracts, receiving more than $4.4 million
in payment on parts that Day purchased for less than
$200,000.

In all known cases, the parts
sent by Day and his conspirators could not be used
for their intended purpose. In one instance, a U.S.
Air Force master sergeant at Patrick Air Force Base
in Florida was unable to perform necessary testing
of missile detection systems on HC-130 aircraft for
a period of seven weeks because of a defective
Day-supplied part. In another instance, technicians
at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia who had
requested a new part for the radar control panel of
a C-130 aircraft received a bogus part supplied by
Day and were required to instead take a used part
from another aircraft to complete the necessary
repair.

Day and his co-conspirators
compounded the fraud by concealing their identities
through the use of multiple nominee companies and by
assuming others’ identities to operate the
companies. When DOD requested proof that the
companies had purchased and intended to supply the
correct parts from approved manufacturers, Day and
others submitted fabricated documents that falsely
represented that the correct parts had been
purchased. When DOD debarred several of the
companies from doing further business with the
military, Day directed his conspirators to
discontinue bidding through those companies and
instead form and use new companies.

According to evidence presented
at trial, to conceal the proceeds of the scheme and
to prevent recovery, Day directed his conspirators
to transfer the scheme’s proceeds to offshore bank
accounts and ultimately to purchase more than 3,500
ounces (more than $2.2 million) in gold bars and
coins.

Before starting his most recent
scheme, Day was sentenced in August 1999 in the
District of New Jersey to 97 months in prison for a
similar scheme to defraud the DOD and other
government agencies, and Day was sentenced in
October 1999 in New Jersey state court to 84 months
in prison for schemes to defraud the city of Newark,
N.J. and the Newark Board of Education. While
serving his federal sentence, Day filed hundreds of
billions of dollars of fraudulent default judgments
against more than 100 people who Day claimed had
prosecuted him unfairly, including the prior case’s
investigating agents, the prosecuting attorneys,
Day’s former defense counsel and the U.S. district
judge who sentenced him in New Jersey.

Prior to Day’s trial, five
defendants in this conspiracy pleaded guilty. Nathan
Francis Victor Carroll was sentenced on Nov. 8,
2007, to 94 months in prison and was ordered to pay
nearly $3.7 million in restitution. Gregory Allen
Stewart was sentenced on April 29, 2008, to 75
months in prison and was ordered to pay nearly $3.7
million in restitution. Susan Crotty Neufeld was
sentenced on May 14, 2008, to five years of
probation and ordered to pay $47,600 in restitution
for the gold coins she received. Juerg Mehr was
sentenced to five years of probation on March 27,
2009. Glenn Teal was sentenced on Sept. 22, 2009, to
90 days in prison.

This case was investigated by the
Defense Criminal Investigative Service, with
assistance from the Defense Contract Audit Agency.
The case was prosecuted by former Assistant U.S.
Attorney John S. Davis and Assistant U.S. Attorney
Elizabeth C. Wu of the Eastern District of Virginia
and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney and Fraud
Section Trial Attorney Ryan S. Faulconer of the
Justice Department’s Criminal Division. The Criminal
Division’s Office of International Affairs provided
assistance.

False Certification of Product
Quality commonly occurs after a product has been
approved for mass production. The original
prototypes of a product are typically created with
high quality materials and parts including strong
metals, seals, plastics, and components. However,
after the original prototypes have been tested and
approved, some defense contractors use inferior
parts and materials to lower costs that make
weapons, ships, vehicles, computers, electronics,
and other military goods less reliable, weaker, and
more prone to not work when needed. The defense
contractor that provides a false certification of a
product's quality has committed a false
certification that may subject the defense
contractor to a Government Contractor Procurement
Fraud False Certification of Product Quality
Whistleblower Reward Lawsuit.

The Defense of Department often
requires its contractors to build weapons systems in
accordance with very detailed product specifications
because quality and reliability are critical with
weapons systems and other military equipment.
Failure to comply with these specifications and
falsely certifying that these specifications were
met can cause death and place our troops in danger.
As such it is extremely important that appropriate
quality assurance steps are taken in building or
producing weapons systems and other military
equipment and that a defense contractor's
certification of compliance with these
specifications can be trusted.

Similar to Government Contractor
Procurement Fraud False Certification of Product
Quality Qui Tam Claims are Government Contractor
Procurement Fraud Product Substitution False
Claims. These claims occur when a Defense
Contractor that is under a government contract that
specifies that the defense contractor build products
using a certain grade, quality of parts, or
materials & parts from American companies, fails to
comply with the contract. These Defense Contractors
often decide it is more profitable to use or
substitute inferior parts or parts not made by
American companies. Defense Contractors that use
inferior parts or parts not made by American
Companies as required by their government contract
may be subject to a Government Contractor
Procurement Fraud Product Substitution False Claim
Act Whistleblower Lawsuit.

Defense contractor procurement
fraud is a common way that government contractors
defraud the United States Government and taxpayers
out of large amounts of money. Many whistle blowers
have been successful in blowing the whistle on
defense contractor procurement fraud and revealed
procurement fraud schemes that put our troops in
danger and steal money from the United States.
Under Federal False Claims Act litigation billions
of dollars have been regained from these procurement
fraud defense contractors. Some common ways defense
contractors commit procurement fraud and cheat the
government are false certification of product
quality, product substitution, cross charging, false
certification of services provided, charging for
Services or Goods not provided, and Violations of
the Truth-in-Negotiations Act ("TINA"), and Improper
Cost Allocation.

Through government contractor
fraud qui tam lawsuits and other federal false
claims act lawsuits, whistleblowers, the United
States Department of Justice, and fraudulent
contractor qui lawyers have helped the government
recover billions of dollars that was wrongfully
taken through fraud from the government. Often in
these cases the fraudulent government contractor has
paid off key government officials to look the other
way and it is essential to have a whistleblower with
specialized knowledge of the fraud to expose the
contractor fraud. In other cases, the fraudulent
government contractor is exploiting a lack of
efficient supervision in the bureaucratic system.
In these cases, it also typically takes a
whistleblower with specialized knowledge to locate
the fraud and expose it.

Federal Government Contracting
can be extremely complicated, but lucrative. Civil
False Claims Act creates financial incentives for
private citizens that have knowledge of government
contractor fraud to blow the whistle on these
fraudulent contractors. Whistleblowers under the act
not only receive protection from the government for
their A key provision of the act was known as qui
tam.

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The increased government spending
over the past decade created an environment where
many corporations, dishonest government contractors,
fraudulent government sub-contractors, and other
dishonest people have begun committing procurement
fraud including systematic procurement fraud against
the government including the Department of Defense.
This government contractor procurement fraud has
defrauded the government out of large amounts of
money. As such, the government is offering large
financial rewards for government contractor
procurement fraud whistleblowers that are aware of
fraudulent billing of the government. These
government contractor procurement fraud
whistleblowers can often work with government
contractor procurement fraud whistleblowers lawyers
and the Department of Justice to expose fraudulent
government contractors and criminals that are
committing procurement fraud.

The United States Department of
Justice is working with procurement fraud
whistleblowers to root out government contractor
fraud committed in connection with the procurement
of goods and services used by our military and
civilian agencies, including fraud that affects our
men and women fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Since January 2009, procurement fraud cases,
including the non-war related procurement fraud
recoveries have accounted for over $1.01 billion in
recoveries – more than the Department's recoveries
in 2007 and 2008 combined. The Department’s
recoveries since 2009 include more than $718 million
attributable to Department of Defense contracts.

Ensuring that our military and
procurement systems are protected from fraud is
vitally important. Using the False Claims Act, the
Department is aggressively pursuing fraud in
connection with the wars in Southwest Asia. During
fiscal year 2010, the Civil Division recovered $10.6
million in these cases. To date, settlements and
judgments in procurement fraud cases involving the
wars in Southwest Asia total $152.2 million. Of this
amount, $129.7 million has been recovered since
January 2009.

The Department has intervened in
a case against Public Warehousing Company, a
multi-billion dollar defense contractor that is
alleged to have engaged in war profiteering on three
prime vendor contracts (for which it was paid $9.8
billion) with the Defense Logistics Agency to supply
food to U.S. troops in Kuwait, Jordan, and Iraq. At
home, the Department is leading an investigation
into companies, as well as individual executives,
who manufacture and sell defective Zylon fabric used
as the key ballistic material in bulletproof vests
sold to the United States for use by federal, state,
local, and tribal law enforcement agencies. The
investigation has revealed that these vests degraded
quickly over time due to heat and humidity and were
unfit for ballistic use. Thus far, the Department
has obtained more than $59 million in this effort,
and the investigation continues today.

In addition to investigating and
initiating cases that target procurement fraud, the
Division also aggressively pursues counterclaims
when fraudulent conduct surfaces in defensive
matters. The Division handles defensive procurement
cases when they are filed in the United States Court
of Federal Claims. The Division has had substantial
success in recent years in obtaining judgments and
settlements stemming from fraud in such cases, which
often involve inflated contractor damages claims.
For example, in Daewoo Engineering v. United States,
the Department of Justice collected approximately
$51 million in 2010 in settlement of fraud claims
arising from a contract dispute concerning the
construction of a road in Palau. The Division also
recently settled for $9 million fraud claims in
Securitas v. United States, a case concerning
security guard contracts for services at United
States military installations in Germany.

The Defense Procurement Fraud
Clearinghouse

The Defense Procurement Fraud
Debarment (DPFD) Clearinghouse, was established in
1993 and has been assigned to the Bureau of of
Justice. This provision required the U.S. Attorney
General to establish a single point of contact for
contractors or subcontractors of the U.S. Department
of Defense (DoD) to promptly confirm whether
potential employees have been convicted of fraud or
any other felony arising out of a contract with the
Department of Defense. The clearinghouse serves as
this point of contact and is the repository for all
DPFD-related records.

Legislation: The Defense
Procurement Fraud Debarment (DPFD) Clearing house
was established by Section 815, Subsection 10, of
the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal
year (FY) 1993 [Public Law 102-484, United States
Code, Section 2408 (c)].

Clearinghouse Data Submissions:
Defense-related fraud and felony cases are tried in
federal court and prosecuted by a U.S. Attorney.
U.S. Attorneys' Offices submit copies of sentencing
orders for all individuals convicted of
defense-related fraud or felony in their districts
to the Defense Procurement Fraud Debarment
Clearinghouse on a quarterly basis. BJA maintains a
list of people who have been disqualified from
contracting with DoD based on these sentencing
orders.

Clearinghouse Services: The
clearinghouse responds to inquiries from federal
agencies, DoD contractors, and first-tier
subcontractors as required to determine employment
or contract eligibility. The clearinghouse also
forwards pertinent information to the U.S. General
Services Administration (GSA), where the information
is coded to identify the specific category of
federal exclusion which is included in the GSA
publication Lists of Parties Excluded From Federal
Procurement or Non-procurement Programs, more
commonly known as the Debarment List or EPLS. The
exclusion is categorized according to the specific
cause (i.e., the statute violated and the treatment
or exclusion).

Information for DoD Contractors
DoD contractors and subcontractors should verify
that potential employees have not been debarred and
are not on the current List of Parties Excluded from
Federal Procurement or Non-procurement Programs (EPLS).
Individuals who have been convicted of fraud or any
other felony arising out of a contract with DoD are
prohibited from contracting with or being employed
by any DoD contractor, as stipulated under the
National Defense Authorization Act of 1989 (Public
Law 100-456).

The basic premise of "qui tam
actions" is to encourage private citizens to
step up and blow the whistle on fraud. Qui tam
provisions of the False Claims Act are based on
the theory that one of the least expensive and
most effective means of preventing fraud on
taxpayers and the government is to make the
perpetrators of government fraud liable to
actions by private persons acting under the
strong stimulus of personal ill will and
potential of large economic gain.

The strong public policy
behind creating an economic gain for
whistleblowers is that the government would be
significantly less likely to learn of the
allegations of fraud, but for persons in certain
positions with specialized knowledge of fraud
that has been committed. Congress has made it
clear that creating this economic incentive is
beneficial not only for the government,
taxpayers, and the realtor, but is an efficient
method of regulating government to prevent fraud
and fraudulent schemes.

The central purpose of the
qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act is to
set up financial incentives to supplement
government regulation and enforcement by
encouraging whistleblowers with specialized
knowledge of fraud going on in the government to
blow the whistle on the crime.

The whistleblower's share
of recovery is a maximum of 30 percent and the
government's prior knowledge of fraud now does
not necessarily bar a whistleblower from
collecting lost revenue. If the government
takes over the lawsuit, the relator can
"continue as a party to the action." The
defendant is also required to pay for the
relator's attorney fees. The whistleblower is
also protected from retaliatory actions by his
or her employer. As a result of the 1986
amendment and subsequent amendments to the False
Claims Act, qui tam lawsuits have increased
dramatically. Though the law was first enacted
for corrupt defense contractors during the civil
war, the subsequent amendments has uncovered
fraudulent government contractors building
roads, bridges, and other public works as well
as health care providers and others committing
Medicare fraud. So far, billions of dollars
have been recovered.

Anyone who defrauds the
government out of revenue can be held accountable
under the False Claims Act. Common defendants
include defense contractors, health care providers,
other government contractors & subcontractors, state
and local government agencies, and private
universities. Whistleblowers often include current
and former employees of the defrauding company,
competitors of government contractors and public
interest groups.

The False Claims Act was enacted
to encourage private citizens to assist the
government in the fight against fraud. Often the
whistleblower faces an uphill battle as large,
powerful corporations or individuals are usually
named as defendants. An experienced attorney in qui
tam claims may help you gain a percentage of stolen
government funds.

Government Contractor Procurement
Fraud Lawyers work with whistleblowers to expose
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As a Federal Government
Contractor Procurement Fraud Lawyer, Jason Coomer, works
with other Military Contractor Procurement Fraud Qui
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throughout the United States to handle large Military
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Government Contractor Military Electronics Procurement Fraud Lawyers,
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Fraud Qui Tam Lawyers, Virginia Defense Contractor
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Fraud Lawyers, and other Qui Tam Lawyers to help
American heroes blow the whistle on corrupt government
contractors.

Whistleblowers that have
independent knowledge of military electronic
component supply chain procurement fraud committed
against the government by government contractors and
subcontractors can blow the whistle on the
military procurement fraud and if they are the first to
provide notice of the fraud can recover a large
financial reward for helping the government identify
and stop procurement fraud.